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Along the famed road from Burma the Japanese seemed to be rushing like a flood wave on the Yangtze, irresistible and ruinous. The mere boundary between Burma and China did not dam them. They pressed headlong across into Yünnan Province, where the hills are cruel and the Governor is called The Dragon and the tribesmen are not hospitable...
...gives movement, distance and a terrifying casualness to his painful suspense. It leads the hero to the palatial Nevada ranch of the master saboteur (Otto Kruger), into the hands of the police, out of them to an abandoned desert mining town loaded with paraphernalia to blow up Boulder Dam, on to Manhattan and an ironic denouement. The Girl (Priscilla Lane), of course, is picked up en route...
...consumption, a maximum of 20 hours is left to serve war purposes. Let us work an additional ten and step up the flow of war goods 50%. Fifty hours a week will still be below the German or Japanese average. Five o'clock is too early to stop dam-building while the flood rises. The Saturday afternoon is not sacrosanct. Let us follow the Australian example by suspending public holidays. Do MacArthur's men take the weekends...
...drives into Nazi lines even crept into German communiques. Berlin admitted that the Russians were on the edge of the Soviets' Pittsburgh -Kharkov -by saying that the city had been under heavy artillery fire. Bald Marshal Semion Timoshenko was within 20 miles of Dniepropetrovsk and its wrecked power dam, bulling his way ahead at the tip of a sharp salient...
...independence in the face of a desperate threat to Britain's eastern empire: these are only symptoms of an attitude that is costing us lives now, and may cost us victory later. It is an attitude that contrasts strangely with the willingness of the Russians to destroy the Dniepropetrousk Dam, the greatest achievement of their nation, because they could look forward to building a better dam when the war was over. With this courage and this vision we must take the offensive...